Licensed guide and premium transport
IsraVIP is a private guide and transport service for travellers who want to discover Israel in depth, and in complete comfort. Most visitors choose between the two: a knowledgeable guide, or a discreet car and driver. Here they are the same person.
Your driver holds a tour guide licence from the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. He meets you on arrival, accompanies you throughout, and returns you to the airport, or your hotel, at the end — the same face for the whole visit, familiar with your interests by the second day and with your preferences by the third. No handovers, no repeating yourself to a new driver each morning, no waiting for a guide to arrive at a site while the meter runs.
What that arrangement buys you is continuity: knowledge and comfort held together across the entire journey, from the first transfer to the last.
Licenced guide
Raphael Peleg
You are accompanied throughout by Raphi, a tour guide licensed by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, with more than seventeen years of experience across the country — from the hills of the Galilee to the craters of the Negev.
That experience covers the full breadth of what makes Israel worth understanding: its history and archaeology, the three faiths that hold it sacred, its geopolitics, its culture and its landscapes. The aim is never a recitation of dates. It is context — the connections between what you are standing on and what you have read, heard or believed about it — delivered at a level that suits how much you already know.
Guiding is offered in English, French or Hebrew, and moves fluidly between them when a group requires it.
Premium vehicle
Every journey takes place in a Mercedes-Benz V-Class 300 — the 2026 model, delivered new this year and maintained to the standard the marque expects. It carries up to six guests in genuine comfort, with room for luggage on airport days and space to move on long ones.
The cabin is finished in leather and fully climate-controlled, with electric sliding doors on both sides for easy, dignified access at every stop. On-board Wi-Fi keeps you connected between sites, and chilled water and refreshments are replenished throughout the day.
The result is a vehicle that does more than move you between destinations. On a long touring day, the drive becomes part of the experience rather than an interruption to it.
Our Standard
Professionalism here means the things a guest should never have to think about. Timings that hold. A vehicle that arrives clean and ready. Arrangements confirmed in advance rather than improvised on the day. Punctuality is not a courtesy in this work — it is the foundation everything else rests on, and it is treated accordingly.
Discretion follows the same principle. What is discussed in the vehicle stays there. Whether you are a family on holiday, a private traveller with your own reasons for being here, or a delegation whose schedule and business are not for public knowledge, the expectation is the same: complete confidentiality, offered without needing to be requested.
The result is a service that adapts to the occasion without changing its standard. The same care applies to a family's first day in Jerusalem as to a corporate visit running to the minute.
Tailor-Made
Made for You
There are no fixed routes here and no group timetables. Each itinerary begins as a conversation — where you have come from, what draws you to Israel, how much walking suits you, whether you are travelling with children or with a parent who needs a slower morning. From there the day is built.
It is also allowed to change. A site that captures you is worth an extra hour; a museum that doesn't is worth leaving early. Weather shifts, flights land late, a family decides at breakfast that they would rather see the coast. The itinerary bends to accommodate all of it, because the alternative — a schedule enforced against the day it was made for — is precisely what a private tour exists to avoid.
Nothing is off-the-shelf.
Signature Routes
Nine curated itineraries, each shaped to your interests — or combined across several days.
Tel Aviv & Jaffa
The Mediterranean city that never pauses, alongside one of the oldest ports in the world. Bauhaus boulevards, the Carmel Market, and the stone lanes of Old Jaffa at golden hour.
Jerusalem Highlights
Three faiths, three thousand years, one walled city. The Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Mount of Olives and the quarters of the Old City — with the context that makes them make sense.
Dead Sea & Masada
The lowest point on earth, reached through the Judean Desert. Sunrise at the fortress of Masada, then the salt and mineral waters four hundred metres below sea level.
Gaza Envelope
The communities of the western Negev and the sites of October 7th. A route approached with care and respect, for guests who wish to understand what happened here and how the region is rebuilding.
Galilee & Christian Sites
Nazareth, Capernaum, the Mount of Beatitudes and the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The landscape of the Gospels, still green and largely unchanged.
Northern Coast
Caesarea's Roman harbour, the Bahá'í Gardens above Haifa, and the crusader walls of Akko — the Mediterranean coastline from antiquity to the present.
Golan Heights
Volcanic plateau, waterfalls and vineyards, with views across three borders. Strategic history and open country in equal measure.
The Negev Desert
Half the country, and the emptiest half. The Ramon Crater, Nabatean trading posts along the Incense Route, and desert silence at scale.
Wine & Nature
Boutique estates in the Judean Hills, the Galilee and the Golan, paired with the landscapes that shape them. Tastings arranged in advance, at your pace.
Our Services
Whatever the occasion, the same vehicle, the same guide, the same standard.
Private Day Excursions
A single day, shaped entirely around you. Collected from your hotel in the morning and returned in the evening, with the route adjusted as the day unfolds.Multi-Day Tours
Three days, a week, or longer — an itinerary built across regions, with hotels, timings and transitions handled so that you simply travel.Religious Journeys & Pilgrimages
Christian, Jewish and interfaith itineraries led with genuine familiarity with the sites and their significance. Time allowed for prayer, reflection and services where you wish.Business & Delegations
Discreet, punctual transport for executives, diplomatic visits and corporate groups. Schedules kept to the minute, and the flexibility to absorb changes without disruption.Events
Weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, family celebrations and private gatherings — for guests arriving from abroad, or for a single day requiring reliable, presentable transport.Airport & Hotel Transfers
Ben Gurion arrivals and departures, inter-city transfers and hotel changes. Flights monitored, meeting point confirmed in advance, no waiting.
